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The comics were based on Larry Harmon's animated L&H animated series (Larry did the voice of Stan Laurel), and TV Comic also ran a strip based on the look of the cartoon. So it may well have been the same artist who drew this Panther strip that also drew the British L&H one, but I don't know his name offhand. I used to have a little red or orange L&H single when I was a kid which had lyrics to their theme tune. "When I'm with you and you're with me, then we will never be individually..."

"Is it just me, or are most of today's comics for kids falling short ofthis standard of humour? In fact, are they even funny anymore?

The real culprit I see in all of this is a sort of cynicism that has crept into much of the entertainment industry these days. The kind of humor we liked as kids may not seem palatable to today's audience given how different we think, or overthink these matters. I could picture someone commenting on why would an agent go through the trouble to hire a talented individual like Pink, only to force him to be the snack guy anyway. Some people hard time accepting humor when they have to analyze it. That's my problem with the whole thing, people need to stop thinking that hard about it.

That's undoubtedly part of it, Chris, but I think another reason is that they're aiming surviving British humour comics at an even younger readership, so the humour isn't as sophisticated as it used to be. And maybe some of the writers aren't as good either.

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About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artiston various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artistandspot illustratoron pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

ForMARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as arestoration artistfor MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

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